Year: 2007
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Virtual Apps Go to Ex-stream
Categories: News and TrendsBy now you have no doubt heard about virtualization. VARs can extend this concept further with a new twist called virtual application streaming. The idea is simple: Send all the bits that are needed for running one application to a user’s desktop at the moment they are needed, similar to how a video or music… Read more
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VAR to VAR
Categories: News and TrendsIt takes a solution provider to know a solution provider, so it’s no wonder that one of the newer trends in the IT channel involves providers launching products and services that they are marketing to peers and competitors. Driven by declining profit margins, distrust of some manufacturers and the goal to address client IT needs… Read more
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Vista Reality Check
Categories: News and TrendsWhen Microsoft launched Windows Vista, many analysts predicted modest adoption, but not this slow. The operating system has failed every measure of success except one—the number of license shipments. At the close of Microsoft’s fiscal-2008 first quarter Sept. 30, Vista license shipments topped 88 million. But licenses shipped aren’t licenses deployed by enterprises or sold… Read more
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An IT Friend in Need
Categories: News and TrendsOne of the numerous highlights of a recent eWEEK survey of solution providers’ business practices was that when it comes to winning new business, many prefer to target the executive management team of a prospective client rather than the IT department. This makes sense on two levels. Sometimes there is no real IT department to… Read more
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Top 10 Business Drivers for 2008
Categories: Tech AnalysisAn online survey was conducted among a sample of technology decision makers selected from the Ziff Davis Enterprise Service Provider database from Nov. 27 to Dec. 10, 2007. In total, 393 ZDE subscribers qualified for and completed the survey. Qualified re Read more